VP, Consumer Technology

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We are actively searching for a Vice President, Consumer Technology to lead the digital transformation of our consumer platforms and ensuring consistent omni-channel integration and processes. This role will be responsible for leading our platforms strategy for customer experience, sales, eCommerce and retail stores. As a member of the Technology leadership team, they will contribute to the development and execution of the enterprise-wide Technology strategy and ensure its alignment with the enterprise's business strategy and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve business success.

Position Type (See Workplace Approach Below): Hybrid 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead and scale a best-in-class, global Consumer Technology organization focused on digital transformation of our consumer platforms and ensuring consistent omni-channel integration and processes 

• Develop the consumer technology strategy and roadmap, and ensure its integration with the overall IT/enterprise strategic plans 

• Responsible for consumer technology platforms, which includes customer experience, sales, eCommerce and retail stores 

• Lead the design, development, operation, and support of platforms 

• Develop and maintain platform sourcing strategy and provide strategic oversight for vendor/partner relationship management OR Manage third-party vendor relationships and service contracts to augment service capabilities 

• Responsible for daily operations of Cloud infrastructure and development 

• Identify business process and practices that can be improved and develop service improvement plans that achieve these results 

•  Manage all consumer technology related projects using rigor, planning, and risk-proof deliverables to ensure that adverse outcomes are minimized 

• Drive the development and implementation of consumer technology standards, governance processes and performance metrics to ensure IT delivers value to the enterprise 

• Develop and maintain short- and long-term budgetary projections and plans for the consumer technology activities and ensure its consistency with overall company objectives and plan 

• Champion consumer technology innovation efforts and its role in experimenting with new solutions to take advantage of business opportunities 

• Provides direction on what emerging technologies should be assimilated, integrated, and introduced to ensure improvement in performance 
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• Manage communication across the organization, to ensure effective collection and dissemination of information regarding consumer technology initiative 

Qualifications and Attributes: 

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 20 years of experience in Technology roles, with extensive experience in consumer technology transformations for global companies, or equivalent combination of education and experience 

• At least 10 years of people management experience 

• Experience in building high performing teams with the ability to create the foundation for the future in a rapidly changing environment. 

• Strong experience architecting and optimizing Consumer Technologies – eCommerce (SFCC, Shopify, Hybris), Retail/POS solutions, Marketing technologies (Salesforce, Liquid, Braze) and Data Warehousing/Analytics services (GCP Big Query, Tableau, AI/ML) 

• Expertise in modern cloud IT Infrastructure solutioning – Azure, Microsoft 365, ITSM (ServiceNow), Google Cloud, etc. 

• Experience working within corporate environments that are experiencing massive growth and global expansion, including scaling and integrating consumer technology platforms 

• Ability to create a consumer technology roadmap that will enable current and future business needs 

• Consumer product and retail industry experience required 

• Passion for building outstanding teams and creating an environment where individuals can do their best work 

• Executive presence and the ability to effectively communicate across varying audiences 

• Strong business and commercial acumen  

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